Red Hat appoints Macquarie Telecom as first Australian certified hosting
partner
Enterprises keen to embrace open source and Linux can now choose a
Managed Services solution with the appointment of Macquarie Telecom as the
first certified Australian Red Hat hosting partner.
As the Red Hat hosting partner, Macquarie provides business and
government with the security of a 24/7 state of the art, purpose-built
data centre specifically designed to support their online initiatives as
well as ensure business continuity.
Australian enterprises and government departments are adopting Red Hat
Enterprise Linux at an accelerated pace, however there are some
enterprises that want the option of a hosted solution.
Providing secure access to Linux
Through its highly accredited and secure Intellicentre, Macquarie
manages the infrastructure needs for thousands of corporate and government
users' websites and critical applications.
With Red Hat growing 100 percent year on year, Macquarie is pleased to
be the first Australian organisation to offer Red Hat users a world-class
hosting solution.
Round the clock security
Leveraging the benefits of advanced technology and open standards,
Macquarie hosted solutions provide business and government with
cost-effective, round the clock access to leading-edge technology and
specialist staff including Linux specialists as well as fully accredited
security solutions to meet corporate governance requirements.
This enables Macquarie to deploy new installations rapidly and ensure
operating environments are running on the latest release of Red Hat. The
infrastructure investment in Red Hat by Macquarie provides excellent
scalability and flexibility for Red Hat Enterprise Linux deployments.
Ongoing benefits to customers include a reduction in the implementation
timetable and overall operational costs.
Carrier independence
Not all organisations have the skills and resources to design and build
secure Linux solutions and very few can afford a 24x7 monitoring and
counter response capability. Macquarie's carrier independence and
international accreditations ensure the highest standards of security,
quality and choice.
Macquarie's Managed Security Services are a key strength of the centre.
They combine dedicated security hardware and software, regular monitoring
of network traffic (event logging, security alerts, firewall reporting,
information updates), centralised policy management and security testing.
Dedicated hosting customers benefit from the latest in anti-virus,
anti-spam, managed firewall and content filtering while co-location
solutions provide enterprises with the ability to utilise the
Intellicentre's connectivity benefits while managing, monitoring and
maintaining their own servers and business continuity. | 
